 | 1824 - 758 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. 1 had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pagina’s
...accomplishment. ' I happened soon after,' says Dr. Franklin, ' to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...in gold ; as he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another •stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined... | |
 | John Edwards Caldwell - 1818 - 780 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...pistoles in gold ; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a...pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pagina’s
...the preacher and of the hearer. " I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold : as lie proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a...nothing from me : I had in my pocket a handful of copper-money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 856 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another * One of his flights of oratory, not in the best taste, is related... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 642 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 660 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a...dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1820 - 516 pagina’s
...therefore refused to contribute. I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get * Mr. Winter relates a curions anecdote of his preaching at a maid-servant who had displeased him by... | |
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I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars,... 
